Tiger rips off woman's arm at Oklahoma zoo

7:08 AM,
Oct. 6, 2013

Written by

Elizabeth Weise
USA TODAY

A tiger tore the arm off a woman working at an exotic animal park in Oklahoma on Saturday morning, local officials said.

Witnesses said the woman was trying to either place or remove a lock on a smaller cage that was holding the tiger at the Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, Okla., Garvin County Undersheriff Jim Mullett said in a statement.

The woman was airlifted to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City, where she is undergoing surgery, Mullett said. The incident happened at 10 a.m. Central Time, the zoo said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. ...